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What Causes Weakness In Arm With Loss Of Vision In One Eye?

I am a 32 year old male. I had experienced some arm weakness 6 months ago. It has gotten much better. Today I experienced some loss of vision is my left eye. I couldn t see my left hand when I held it off to the side of my head. Soon after what I would consider a migraine headache which I don t have. My concern is MS. what do you think?
Wed, 18 Mar 2015
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Dear Patient, i cannot confirm the diagnose ms over the internet, but it is a possibilty that has to be examined further. However there is other possibilities like migraine as you said or inflammations of the optical nerve (without ms). I recommend neurological consultation. To find out if it could be ms there is an mri scan of the head/ brain to be done. Depending on what the neurologist will find in his examination he might suggest to do a lumbal punction with examination of the nerve fluid. Hope you get better soon, if you have any clarificatons you can get back to me, if this was helpful please kindly rate my answer. Best regards
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What Causes Weakness In Arm With Loss Of Vision In One Eye?

Dear Patient, i cannot confirm the diagnose ms over the internet, but it is a possibilty that has to be examined further. However there is other possibilities like migraine as you said or inflammations of the optical nerve (without ms). I recommend neurological consultation. To find out if it could be ms there is an mri scan of the head/ brain to be done. Depending on what the neurologist will find in his examination he might suggest to do a lumbal punction with examination of the nerve fluid. Hope you get better soon, if you have any clarificatons you can get back to me, if this was helpful please kindly rate my answer. Best regards